Travis Orbin - Periphery Playalongs - “Ow My Feelings“ & “All New Materials“

As is the case whenever I do these, I had a few days to myself between finishing a full-length and prepping for an upcoming Darkest Hour tour and I decided to tackle these tunes. “ANM“ was an easy one and since it had been so long since I did “Inertia“ I figured why not! Sheesh, some of those parts in “Ow“ surely induced the ’ow’ in me. As I was getting these back up to performance tempii I got the same feeling I did when rehearsing “The Walk“, in that I would certainly do things differently this time around (25-year-old Travis was a damn glutton for drum punishment, haha); but that wouldn’t be true to the spirit of my playing style/approach from back then. I had an old demo of “Ow“ in my e-mail with most of my programmed parts, and this version of “ANM“ is from the old Bulb Soundclick. Fun fact, but “ANM“ was named after a branding on the bottom of the rubber spider that’s made a home out of my bass drum all these years